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Sonia Randhawa is a Senior Technology Executive. She coordinates innovation and functional advancement across organizations and manages key associations, merges and acquisitions, the incorporation of new plans of action, the incubation of new advances, and the development of elite specialized ability. Sonia Randhawa has held several influential positions at IBM, Nokia Networks/Alcatel-Lucent, F5 Networks, and Intel Corporation.
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Listen in as host Joe Toscano yarns with a different guest each week about their experience in movements and campaigns for progressive social change.
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What a delight to have the lovely Sonia Randhawa on the show this week. Sonia is the current producer-presenter of 3CR's Wednesday Breakfast, but she has been around community radio a lot longer, starting up a pirate station in Malaysia some years back when she lived there with her Punjabi father and English mother who met in Liverpool in the 60s. …
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Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines// 7.10 am Darcie Carruthers nature campaigner, ACF talking about the Southern Launch rocket launching site and its environmental impact, and also about the destruction of forests for beef production for the big supermarkets.www.acf.org.au 7.30am Dr Rachael Wallis researcher at the University of Southern Queensl…
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Magoh Biosphere Reserve, Pride by Side and Good Data Project, Report on Anti-Palestinian and Anti-Muslim Racism, Transition Mining in Nigeria
Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines// 7.10am Mutang Yurud from Bruno Manser Fonds spoke about the demand for the Magoh Biosphere Reserve in the East Malaysian state of Sarawak by the Indigenous Penan.www.bmf.ch, https://bmf.ch/upload/Kampagnen/Magoh/Magoh_declaration_2024_signed.pdf 7.30am Lee Crockford (Pride by Side) and Ashish Chopra (Good Dat…
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RMIT Students for Palestine, Touching Base and NDIS participant, Sydney Palestine Rally from Sunday 4th Aug, Climate Activist with Blockade Australia
Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines//Please note that the next interview details sexual experiences and sex work. If you would prefer not to hear this type of content, or have children around, we advise you to tune out for the next 10 minutes. We listened to the second part of interview with Melanie Hawkes - a member of the management committee o…
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Folks may know this week's guest, Justin DeLeeuw, via his gold toilets which have been spotted around Preston and most consistently on Google Maps at 'Modern Art - Not a Fan', a rather interesting parcel of grass on a median strip on St Georges Road. Justin and other assorted activists, including members of the Renters and Housing Union (RAHU), hav…
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Sharpening of Borders Through Technological Experiments, Corruption and Upcoming Election, Uncle Robbie and Court Case on Genocide
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines//Petra Molnar is a lawyer and anthropologist specializing in migration and human rights. Her latest book ‘The Walls Have Eyes’ is a global story of the sharpening of borders through technological experiments, reflecting on 6 years of on-the-ground work. Petra joined us and spoke about borders and technological…
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Why is it so difficult to conduct research on the West Papuan Noken? How does an item of Intangible Cultural Heritage (UNESCO) relate to nationalism? Who exactly owns cultural heritage? These are the questions our guest this week is grappling with in his thesis at the University of Melbourne and his name is Louis Liedel. Louis is interested in cult…
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Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines//Matt Shanks is a Taungurung man with a background in Cultural Land Management and Cultural Heritage Management. Matt is the Director of Cultural Land Management at Taungurung Land and Waters Council and currently a Councillor on the Biodiversity Council. Matt joined us to discuss about cultural reservesSonia c…
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This week we are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the West Papua Office in Docklands - the only office in the world housing members of the West Papuan transitional government. There you will find its Foreign Affairs minister, Jacob Rumbiak, who has been in the struggle for his land's liberation since he was a young boy and who spent 10 years in …
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Mars on Earth. That's where this week's guest has been and she joins us to talk all about it. Sally ventured to Antartica this year, prompted by her deep concern for sea-level rise, having lived her whole life by the water. She got to see a lot of cold, blue water, icebergs, penguins and seals on her epic voyage across the Roaring Forties with 350 …
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Rising Tide, Mahmoud Darwish,family and domestic violence, legislation to regulate scams, Senator Lidia Thorpe
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// 7.10am Alexa from Rising Tide giving an update on their direct action and preparations for the blockade in November. www.risingtide.org.au 7.30am Yousef Alreemawi & Farah Beaini spoke about famed Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, first broadcast on Spoken Word, Thursday 18 April 2024. 7.45am Katherine Mckern…
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We sure wish Duff would write a book about his stay in an abandoned resort behind Cape Tribulation and his cosying-up with a cassowary. We might have to settle for his sci-fi, end of the earth epic about 4 blokes who return from the forest to find they are the last humans alive. In Warrnambool. Those old enough may know Duff as the fella who pie-fa…
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NAIDOC week with Jodie Choolburra-Welsh and Keiran Stewart-Assheton, Environmental Justice Australia,Shaping of Fiji in the Colonial Era and Photgraphy
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines//Marisa from Doin time show interviewed with Keiran Stewart-Assheton about the history of NAIDOC followed by Jodie Choolburra-Welsh, founder of Brolga Dance Academy Sonia spoke Danya Jacobs with Senior Legal Counsel with Environmental Justice Australia spoke about the current Senate Inquiry into new nature law…
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Serial pest, Leon Zembekis, joins us on the show this week. He is our newly-appointed elder guest wrangler and we are so happy to welcome him to the Radical Australia team. Leon has always respected his elders and the wisdom they impart. He has worked for the Greens for a long time and grew up with a staunch Greek mum who knew how to keep the counc…
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What a treat to have Gus Nossal on the show this week. He joined us on the phone from his home at the last minute. What a trooper. For the uninitiated, Gus is an Australian legend who has been bestowed with many titles and was on the telly all the time back in the day as scientific public intellectual. Gus says that public communication is vital. H…
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MYCOmmunity Mushroom Festival, Bob Brown Foundation, Disrupt Land Forces, Amnesty International on surveillance in Indonesia
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines//Sonia spoke with Feresh Pizarro from South Spore, recorded at the MYCOmmunity Mushroom Festival in Bacchus Marsh,on 23 and 24 MarchSonia caught up with Scott Jordan, Bob Brown Foundation about protest outside MMG every ThursdayFriday 21st June, Disrupt Land Forces had its first public meeting (at Black Spark,…
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Don Sun is a proud Sunshine boy from the 50s and has been around the community radio scene for decades. He penned the Admin Watch column in Farrago, University of Melbourne's student magazine, back in the day when he studied political philosophy and saw student unionism up close. He roadied for Lou Richards at Channel 7 and turned the quarter light…
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Mohammad Semara Youth activist, No Northern Incinerator Wollert, non-disclosure agreements, Market Forces
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines//We heard Mohammad Semara, Youth activist from the local Sudanese diaspora speaking at last Sunday's Free Palestine Rally.Cath Rouse from No Northern Incinerator Wollert joined us and spoke about of what being proposed and who are the main actors behind this. You can check the NO Northern Incinerator Wollert F…
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What are they like - these two muggins. These oafs. These silly sausages. Diggaling deep, shovelling the cash, doing what they can for their beloved 3CR. A hold-tight-to-your-seats thrill ride as these two oompalompas freestyle for your heartfelt pledge to keep the door open to anyone and everyone who has ever done anything good for the wider world…
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Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines//The month of June marks RADIOTHON at the station and this year’s theme is ‘Sound on for Solidarity’. 'Solidarity' has been at the heart of 3CR's work for nearly five decades across a range of issues and themes. Start saving your pennies people and we look forward to your financial solidarity during June. Any …
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Sue Bolton is almost peerless when it comes to having clear working memory and deep knowledge of Australian politics the last 40 years. She can tell you the details of so many leftist campaigns, what the issues were that were being caused by government and business, and key decisions that were made. Her knowledge is really quite astounding. We retu…
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Rowland G Schultz entertains us muchly this week with his poetry and one of his flamenco guitar tracks. He called in on the phone from Sydney and entertained us with many poems. Rowland acquired a brain inury through a transport accident some years ago and this precipitated a very difficult period of his life. We talk about what it is like to lose …
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These days, this week's guest, Ron Guy, is an artist activist for the cause of Western Sahara, the last colony of Africa. Earlier, he supported the cause of East Timor before it gained independence. Ron has been a union delegate for the AWU and was the OH&S officer at Dow Chemicals. He has had a long interest in the trade union movement, starting w…
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Arborist and life-long rock star. That's this week's guest, Andrew Matters, calling in from Adelaide. Andrew has been shaping, saving, planting and assessing trees for over 20 years. He loves planning and planting gardens and is currently crushing on the Crepe Myrtle tree. He spent his young adulthood in Sydney with a panel van and a band - Neptune…
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Jeannie Erceg was one of 5 residents who resisted the demolition of their homes on the Barack Beacon public housing estate in Port Melbourne just a little while ago and says 'They can't make me disappear. I can say what I want'. Jeannie says the estate had a 'friendly feeling' and it was a 'wonderful community'. Like every resident on the estate, J…
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Greg returns on the blower from Queensland to the Radical Australia studio talking about his new research on West Papua and its shady colonial history. Definitely one for the enthusiasts and for anyone wanting to enlighten themselves about colonial wars on the doorstep of our nearest neighbour. Freedom for West Papua.…
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I want to lead the way in having difficult conversations says this week's guest, Ruth Clare. Ruth is perhaps best known either for her acting job in a genital herpes commercial or for her memoir about growing up with her returned serviceman father. One lighthearted and one serious fact about Ruth and we straddle both ends in our conversation with h…
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Acknowledgement of Country //Headlines // 7.10am Grace speaks with Rabia from Covid Conscious Queers Naarm about the importance of keeping safe; and talked about upcoming events. 7.30am Sonia sepaks with Lucas Moore from Banyule for Palestine about an action outside Kate Thwaites MP's office on Sat 27 April. 7.45am Sonia speaks with Rachel Deans fr…
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Pauline Klemm is the woman behind the social media juggernaut, The Baba Desi Story, on Facebook, where she has taken some stunning pictures of Belgrave wizard, Baba Desi. She has been taking pictures for the last 6 years after coming to care for her brother's camera when it came into her possession. It was a sliding door moment and Pauline learnt t…
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Students Against War, Impact Of the Israel Lobby On the Media, The Palestinians: National Identity and Current Realities, Gas Campaigner with the Environment Centre Northern Territory
Acknowledgement of Country //Headlines // 7.10am Sonia caught up with Jacob Starling from Students Against War and spoke about universities' complicity with the genocide in Gaza, and what can be done. https://www.instagram.com/studentsagainstwar_/ 7.30am we rebroadcasted Mary Kostakidis speaking with Jan Bartlett on Tuesday hometime about the impac…
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Antoinette Pitt used to roadie for 73 Bob Bob and was Australia's first female wrestling referee. She is a woman of many surprises. Antoinette is a nurse and an executive for Australian Progressives who have 6 pillars of E's: Ethics + Empathy + Evidence + Equality + Engagement + Empowerment. Learn all about Antoinette's goth phase in Lilydale and h…
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Sit-Intifada, Sustain the Australian Network On Food Justice, Grandmothers Against Removals, Endangered Maugean Skate
Acknowledgement of Country //Headlines //7.10am We heared Nasser's longform conversation with Ihab Abu Ibrahim, a Palestinian activist and founder of The Sit-Intifada, about his family enduring conditions of the 1948 Nakba and their refugee camp experience, why he started his protest at Parliament House steps, the importance of continual protesting…
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This week's guest, Ribke Ovide, is a volunteer at the the West Papua Office in Docklands. She has been living in Australia for the last couple of years, coming here on a scholarship to further her studies in aviation mechanics. Ribke hails from Timika in West Papua and speaks 4 languages. She was born in 200. Her faith is very important to her, as …
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We Are Not Numbers, Oxfam On Yemen, National Union of Students about Labor's Amendments, Assange Campaign
Acknowledgement of Country //Headlines // 7.10am We speak with Veronique from We Are Not Numbers Aus spoke about their upcoming silent vigil in Adelaide, media silence on their events and the unconscionable ongoing genocide. 7.30am We speak with Lucia Goldsmith Head of Humanitarian Aid Oxfam Australia discussed the ongoing civil war in Yemen and th…
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This week's guest, Tim Hollo, is kind of like Green royalty in Australia. He heads The Green Institute, a think tank focussed on transformative issues in the green space, he founded Green Music Australia, he was the communications director for Christine Milne, and he has been at the environmental game since university in the 90's. His first love, h…
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Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, Toxic Chemicals on Workers, Housing Across Remote Indigenous communities, Nowruz Celebration
Acknowledgement of Country //Headlines // 7.10am We speak to Sam Reynolds from the Institute for Energy Economics & Financial Analysis, about Japan's falling demand for gas and the implications for new and existing LNG developments in Australia. 7.30am We speak with Alison Thorne from the Freedom Socialist Party chatted with us about toxic chemical…
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In case you missed it - here is the second part to our talk with Kutcha Edwards. Kutcha is a legend of 3CR, steering our annual Beyond the Bars NAIDOC prison broadcasts for many a year. In this chat, we are taken on a trip down the memory lane of aboriginal Fitzroy of the 1990s. From the MAYSAR/ Fitzroy Stars Youth Club gymnasium and Uncle Herbert …
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International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), Coded Singing Role in Resistance Against Oppression, Hume for Palestine
Acknowledgement of Country // Headlines // 7.10am Sonia speaks with A/ Prof Tilman Ruff, co-founder and Australian chair of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) about their submission on AUKUS, a trilateral partnership between the UK, the US, and Australia. 7.30am Grace caught up with Serwa Naghshbandi, a Kurdish-Iranian ind…
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We are thrilled to broadcast a couple of chats we recently had with the mighty Kutcha Edwards. This week, we learn the origins of Kutcha's name and some things about his early life. Kutcha tells us that he was born before The Referendum and politics has played a big part in his life. Kutcha went to high school in Taralgon before moving to the city …
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US Blockade and Sanctions on Cuba, Housing for the Aged Action Group's (HAAG) about Midsumma, Reef's Threat of Marine Heatwaves, Coalition of Everyone
Acknowledgement of Country // Headlines // 7:10am Jan Bartlett spoke with PHD Candidate Sasha Gillies-Lekakis about the US blockade and sanctions on Cuba in the aftermath of COVID-19. Hear the full interview via 3cr.org.au/hometime-tuesday. More info on the economic crisis in Cuba via The Conversation. 7.30am Fiona York of Raise The Roof spoke with…
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A life full of mentors and a-ha moments. That has been the story of this week's guest, Rob Brown, a big tall Scotsman indeed. Rob was born in 1960 in the Gorbals, tenement housing in Glasgow, sharing one toilet among five families. That's just how things were. Rob's mother scrubbed the steps of the school on her hands and knees with a brush. That's…
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Acknowledgement of Country //Headlines //Anne Maxwell from Radio MMT, a 3CR show broadcast on Fridays at 5.30pm, joined us to talk about a new film on economics, called Finding the Money.Wil Stracke from We are Union spoke to Sonia about Women's day rally in Melbourne.Grace talked to Quay-Quay, from Pride in protest, on the actions they've held thr…
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We Are Not Numbers, The Rainforest Tribunal, Mardi Gras De-Invite NSW Police, UN High Commission for Refugees
Acknowledgement of Country // Headlines // 7.10am Lukas Straumann from Bruno Manser Fonds spoke about their new documentary 'The Rainforest Tribunal' which is available free to watch via YouTube. 7.30am Quay-Quay from Pride in Protest spoke about the Sydney Mardi Gras' decision to de-invite NSW police from this year's march, following the murder of…
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Australian Assange Campaign, Red Books Day, Rally Magazine & invisible disabilities, Tarek Younis (Yeah-Nah-Pasaran)
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Greg Barns SC, lawyer advising the Australian Assange campaign: Sonia spoke with Greg about the High Court hearing in the UK, the impact on media freedom and the vigil for Julian Assange happening in Melbourne Red Books day: Grace & Sonia read a few excerpts from Marx, and discussed them. Rally Magazine & in…
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We spoke with this week's guest, University of Sydney Professor of Law, Simon Butt, on Indonesia's Presidential Election Day. Simon came on to talk about some of the legal infrastructure in Indonesia, during the pre-1998 Suharto era and now. On paper, Indonesians have more legal rights than Australians, but corruption runs right through the system.…
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Acknowledgement of Country// 7:05am Headlines// 7:15am Priya of 3CR Thursday Breakfast speaks with activist and organiser Amber about anti-Midumma and anti-pinkwashing. Listen to the entire conversation via Rotations. 7:30am Sonia speaks with Associate Prof Sharyn Davies about the Indonesian polls happening on Wed 14 Jan. 7:45am We play a recording…
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Healthcare Workers Across Victoria Rallying in Geelong, Seismic Blasting in the Otway Basin, TJ Hickey's Death, Camp Sovereignty
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// This Saturday, healthcare workers from across Victoria are rallying in Geelong to protest and demand an end to the genocide in Gaza. Sonia Spoke with Noor Al-Assafi (she/ her) a social worker in mental health, & Jackie Kriz (she/her) a delegate for the Australian Nurses & Midwives Association, on the Geelong…
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This week's guests, Mecedes Zanker and Joe Lorback, are members of the Renegade Solidarity Audio Force crew who have been involved in all kinds of local radical activism, from #freeassange, to Melbourne's Palestinian motorcades, the Park Hotel protest actions and every Sunday Palestine rally to date. Joe joined us from his weekend at the Women's te…
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Climate Justice, Seismic Testing in the Otway Basin, The Flirtation of Girls and Tunnerminnerwait & Maulboyheenner Commemoration 2024
Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Richard Weatherby spoke with Sonia about climate related financial disclosure. On 12th January, the treasurey made available for comment some proposed amendments to legislation governing climate related financial disclosure which sounds dull as dishwater, but which could have real implications for our abilit…
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